A visit to Ephesus, Turkey

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When I first visited Turkey, I did something I won’t be able to do again. I gave the coach driver a 2 million lira tip! Shortly after my visit, the revalued their currency, simply by deleting the word ‘million’. The Turk with the price of a packet of cigarettes in his pocket is no longer a millionaire!

But, we weren’t there to marvel at the currency. Most of the shopkeepers in the resort town of Kusadasi, where our cruise ship called on its tour around the Aegean Sea preferred to take Euros, anyway.

We were there to visit ruins … it’s said there are more Grecian and Roman ruins in Turkey and the Holy Land than there are in modern Greece and Italy.

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